HOW TO INSTALL FOTOXX IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A UBUNTU IMAGE EDITOR APPLICATION
HOW TO INSTALL FOTOXX IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A UBUNTU IMAGE EDITOR APPLICATION
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Fotoxx image editor in Ubuntu 16.04. Fotoxx is a open source Ubuntu image editor application used to edit images, photos, snapshots. It supports almost all image formats i.e. PNG, JPEG, TIF, GIF and so on. It’s an nice application for image editing purpose comes with rich features like Crop the images, sharpen, can edit and apply effects on raw photos, resizing of the images, can rotate angle, can apply different effects like blur effect, black and white effect, old photo effect, Brightness & Darkness effect and so on. In short it’s an nice application for normal photo editing purpose but for professional use I would not recommend you to use fotoxx Ubuntu image editor.
Fotoxx is very much easy and user friendly application to use due to it’s simple interface and supports almost all languages like English, Italian, German, Catalan, French…etc..Fotoxx Ubuntu image editor is only available for Linux and Unix related operating systems. It’s completely free for use and released under GNUv3 license.
Follow the below steps to install Fotoxx Ubuntu image editor in Ubuntu 16.04
The installation steps of Fotoxx image editot is quiet simple. There are two ways by which we can install fotoxx i.e. by using .deb package or direct from Ubuntu default package repository. Here I am going to install via default Ubuntu repository.
Before we start the installation let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Ign:2 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily InRelease
Hit:3 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dawidd0811/neofetch/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnumdk/lollypop/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kritalime/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/rebuntu16/avidemux+unofficial/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/nemo/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Fetched 306 kB in 6s (50.6 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
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To install fotoxx we don’t need to install any 3rd Party PPA repository as Fotoxx Ubuntu image editor is a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the fotoxx package use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install fotoxx # Install Fotoxx Ubuntu image editor Package Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: calligra-data calligra-libs fonts-lato gnome-settings-daemon iio-sensor-proxy javascript-common krita-data libakonadi-kde4 libakonadiprotocolinternals1 libcauchy0.0v5 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libenca0 libgsl2 libguess1 libjs-jquery libkabc4 libkcalcore4 libkdcraw-data libkdcraw23 libkldap4 libkresources4 libkrossui4 libm2mml0.0v5 libopencolorio1v5 libphononexperimental4 libpoppler-qt4-4 libqca2-plugin-ossl libqjson0 librubberband2v5 libruby2.3 libsdl2-2.0-0 libsndio6.1 libsoprano4 libspnav0 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 libva-wayland1 libva-x11-1 libyaml-cpp0.3v5 mpv python3-pylast rake rtmpdump ruby ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet ruby-power-assert ruby-test-unit ruby2.3 rubygems-integration soprano-daemon youtube-dl Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: dcraw fotoxx-common libgtkimageview0 libimage-exiftool-perl liblensfun-data liblensfun0 ufraw ufraw-batch Suggested packages: gphoto2 brasero gimp rawtherapee hugin gimp-ufraw The following NEW packages will be installed: dcraw fotoxx fotoxx-common libgtkimageview0 libimage-exiftool-perl liblensfun-data liblensfun0 ufraw ufraw-batch 0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 205 not upgraded. Need to get 7,182 kB of archives. After this operation, 24.6 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y ---> Enter "y" to Continue the Installation
As you can see above we have successfully installed the Fotoxx Ubuntu image editor package. To confirm the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l fotoxx # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii fotoxx 15.11.1-3 amd64 easy-to-use digital photo editor
To open the Fotoxx application just type the command fotoxx on shell prompt. Refer the sample output below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ fotoxx # Open the Fotoxx Ubuntu Image Editor
After open the Fotoxx Ubuntu image editor application it will ask to scan your computer for all available images. So just click on Proceed button to continue.
SCAN FOR IMAGES ON YOUR COMPUTER
As you can see below scanning completed. There no images available on my computer.
IMAGE SCANNING COMPLETED
Fotoxx Ubuntu Image Editor :
FOTOXX UBUNTU IMAGE EDITOR
You can also open the Fotoxx Ubuntu image editor application graphically using Search your comuter box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN FOTOXX UBUNTU IMAGE EDITOR GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the package use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r fotoxx # Uninstall the Fotoxx application
(Reading database ... 279360 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fotoxx (15.11.1-3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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